My point (which I know you weren't directly replying to), is that there are suits and supreme court decisions that change what those rights are from time to tim

My point (which I know you weren't directly replying to), is that there are suits and supreme court decisions that change what those rights are from time to time. At a certain time all the southern states would have said they had a right to control who could get married (like blocking whites and blacks), but was overturned in that famous case (Loving v some state I think). Similarly, the const. allows fed control of interstate commerce, yet there were endless lawsuits about what this applies to until the supremes decided it. Then states all thought they could control what marriage meant (again, see above :-)), until they were again overruled by the supremes. I know there are rules and precedents, but I find it murky and mostly a political football (half the country is for states rights to trump the things they like and against states rights for things they don't like).